I am enjoying the feed backs not because it say what it says.. but becuase some belive in sharing.. please do so too...

(The very powerfull temple in kanchipuram where I have been recently.. here in this temple place goddess Parvati prayed to get Lord Shiva's blessings and under the tree of mango which she prayed is still there for 3500 years in This temple... this mango tree has four types of fruits in one single tree...)

Dear Om,

I read the blog and I would like to post comments there for all the contributors, but I don't know how to do it (yet)...so..I will talk to you here, okay?

Fist, I have to apologize because my english is "bad, poor"...and I'm making the 11 days programm with a "dictionary" by my side...lol...in order to understand the meaning of some words and it has been so valuable for me too!

In the matter of "kundalini" I agree with you... That's a strong energy and if someone knows how to "turn on" will know how to deal with it.

I shall tell that I'm "loving" the "Anulom Vilom" - the Pranayam technique of breathing exercises - I hope to practise it more at the week end...

In fact, I would like to tell you more things, but I only know how to express my feelings in "portuguese", not in english....lol.

Resumed: I'm appreciating a lot... I'm learning too much....I'm happy!

Thanks,

 

Some ones day 4 in 11 days program... thanks for sharing...

Hi Shashi,

Thats fascinating to be able to explore the ancient places and feel the energies so strongly that they shift awareness. Are there any photo's of this place, look forward to hearing more about your experience there.

Here's my responses to Day 4 questions.

How was your weekend ? Did you notice some difference?
My weekend was really great, I felt like I was in a flow. I'm aware of quite a few things I definitely feel an increase in my energy level, more upbeat mood, more centered. I also feel as though my body is healing itself in the areas of low back, sinus and ear, as the pain in those areas seems to be on a decrease.

Did something good happen to you during the weekend.
yes it did 

What one thing you would like to do for your love of life?
My ideal is to be happy and like a meme this happiness might spark off the happiness in someone else. On a different level of being visit a place of power like Sedona and while i'm at it sneak in a shopping spree on the side.

What are the negative aspects of your life? Tell me what made you feel guilty recently?
Identifying with the egoic nature, the self-importance. Blaming others for my failures not being responsible for myself. Being fearful. Self-pity. I felt guilty when we were about to have supper, my mother was serving chicken, and I took the piece and put it on my plate, and I didn't want to eat any of it and at the same time I didn't want to draw attention to the fact, so I took a few bites and saved a handful for my dog. I felt guilty because I wasn't being true to myself by taking a few bites and yet I didn't want to hurt her feelings.

What do you think of Shadow and darkness?
I think when we look at others that we see ourselves and we don't often realize that if we see it in them then it is also in us, its our self reflection. I have alot of different streams of thought on the shadow to me it can mean the unconscious state of mind, where one only see's what is relatively apparent on the surface a social conditioning to see a certain way, and unless the agreement is altered in some way awareness becomes very rigid and fixed in one place.
In a different respect the shadow has a different nature altogether and here are just some of my thoughts on it. I like the mood and feel of darkness, it feels imbued with power especially in nature, it also feels very natural to me and I also feel it reflects our state of being.
I feel the shadow is more than what we generally think of it as. In a way they are just like us in the mornings they are just beginning to wake up and come to life and in the evenings and especially at the twilight hour they are the fullest and most powerful. When I look at them i'm aware of them having different textures and feels to them.and when power breathes life into them something extraordinary can and does happen.
I believe here is even a shadow of death.
To me the shadow is every bit a mystery and some things can not be explained by our reason alone.

About the homework
Nature really soothes my mind, when I touch the trees i feel very much at peace inside and also as if my awareness is merged with the tree, a total connection. It was very silent and still out that evening so there was hardly any sound. When I do speak to myself in this fashion about fears and etc. its like i'm finally listening to that voice inside. Its interesting when I know i have to do something like be silent for an hour my mind wants to rebel and if my focus is not so much on that there is not as much resistance going on.
I felt really good about the breathing excercises. I had a really neat experience of finding music afterward, one site that I used to listen to Bhajans on sort of indirectly opened another door to some very spiritual radio stations, which left me smiling all the more.
It made for a great night.
































 

A stone which I felt has power of love and faith.. send me your stone pics too ...

Namaste Ssahsi,

I hope you are at peace and wishing you more.I am attaching the pix of my brand new laptop
and the other one with which i am in love with it,The stone.There is something special abt this
stone.it energizes me with imenese happiness.I am thankful to you again for giving me such a wonderfull opportunity.

Virtual i havent received the day 5 program.i dont want to miss a day of this powerful program.
Sorry for causing you trouble.i hope you wont mind.I hope all is well with you.And waiting to hear from you soon.Have a blessed day!

From the heart

Some thought as such....

Hello dear friend



I hope everything is alright and it's just that you are too busy to continue

the eleven days program.

I thank you very much for all you shared last week, it was very useful. It

made a more conscious person.



I'd like to learn the complete Pranayam breathing technique... I hope you

want to share that knowledge with me.



All the best,



Peace

 

There is some one who is having ineresting experiences...

Thanks Shashi,

Have had some amazing fortune over the past few days health wise. Last

weekend I went to visit an amazing Naturopath....he uses a quite unusual

healing technique...today I returned and experienced the most amazing

Kundalini movements...

There is a HUGE amount of healing going on within me..I feel many barriers

and boundaries falling away..and am finding it hard to feel comfortable with

old thinking patterns..especially those relating to limitation as quite

frankly I know I am rapidly outgrowing them....rapidly..rapidly..rapidly...I

haevn't found the solutions I need yet..but I now feel confident they will

come...my trust and faith is increasing daily...



I have stopped eating sugar all together..which is phenomenal for a

sugar-aholic!....and my diet has improved substantially too...my intuition

is sharpening as well..this morning I received an awareness that I would

expereince the kundalini forces in the healing bath on the way there...which

was great...forewarned was forearmed..for sure..a at least this time I

wasn;t terrified as I had been in Peru, when I had no idea what it was and

such strong electricity would course through me.



I am looking forward to continuing the program..

and wished to pay particular mention to how much I enjoyed the exercise wtih

food....of al teh things I love and often gorge on...I chose something quite

strange for me..watermelon..but I must say it was THE MOST AMASINGLYLY

PLEASURABLE EXPERIENCE...



lOVE AND LIGHT

 

Some Concerns.....

Below is chain of discussions that I have had with a dear friend from our group.... which is quite intersting... I would like your inputs on this.. please write your 
comments on the same.......
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FRIEND:
Shashi: thank you for being so opened. I would like to know actually more about you, were have you learn all of this? And why are you taking all this work ? I am wondering who you are as a person.
ohh I was forgetting to ask you about kundalini that you mention, isn't it dangerous to get involve in that. I mean, we can all expand it but what if we are not prepared to do that. I have been told that kundalini moves energies that not always we are prepared to deal with.
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ME:
Coming to Kundalini... the power that are there are very powerful and but very hard to attain that state of raising those powers upwards and openning the gateways of the chakra... what we are trying to do here, realise the awareness of them within our self.... and I don't think that in only 11days we will be able to unleash its energy ... and no its not dangerous if you are able to awaken those energies as I believe that if you are strong enough to awaken them, then you are strong enough to handle them.. all these danger thing has come from the Tantric Practices who try to raise it for some kind of negetivite actions and try to control these energies for their personal physical gains.... and some of them wanted this to be obscure so they made it dangerous... to handle.. anything to do with supreme consciousness is a positive thing and will have positive effect only...

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FRIEND:
Ok, I will take your word of kundalini not being dangerous. Nevertheless I do recommend that you measure what you say about it, I have seen that the majority of the people in this group are female and western, and I’m afraid that it could lead them to improper methods.

So far what you have proposed us, it great, but westerns are not very patient and we want things know and sometime we get involve in stuff that are not very nice. I say this not thinking in your program but thinking in the afterwards.

About you not being a guru, I have to tell you that it doesn’t worry me. We are all trying to evolve, to walk the path that leads us you nirvana, it doesn’t really matters where we are standing, just matters that we keep walking and helping each other.

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ME:
I really did not understand what you mean by saying that westerners not being patient etc and get involved actually. What about afterwords, Please explain as it will definately help me in understanding and taking this forward as well as it will also make me grow further in my understanding. I will be happy if you explain frankly.
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FRIEND:

Hi Shashi, what I meant about westerners is that we have a very strong Judeo-Christian culture and the problem with that is that those religions don’t offer any method of spiritual development. You don’t get to an enlightment, you just sit and wait till you die. And your only salvation is to regret your sins. It’s a culture based in guilt and there is nothing you can do.
For those uncomfortable with that you can either go for the hole experience or you search a shortcut. And by that a mean magical things, they look up for palm reading, and rituals with candles, anything at all that can give them power over others.
There are thousands of books with witchcrafts recipes, that would give you the job you are looking for, or making someone fall in love with you, or having more money.
But those who know about kundalini, and are avid of power is worst, because I understand that there are ways that you can awake that energy without being prepared, and a lot get of them get harm or harm other people.
And this happens as I was telling you because of the hole of our religions. We don’t have the Vedas or the Sutras to guide us, we are told that all that stuff is diabolic. So those who have the courage to look beyond, sometimes are mist lead.
All the mystical aspect of life has been hidden for centuries as a result of the persecutions of the catholic church.
Now a days we have access of almost everything but we do not know how to used that knowledge, and the majority of the people want pleasure and power, they don’t know that is a path of love and renounce.
Of course I am generalizing, not everyone is like that, but giving information to someone that is not prepared, can be dramatic.
And I should know that, you have no idea the things I have herd. One time a was teaching a simpler way of meditation that I do to a guy, and that person told a friend of mine that I was a witch and that I wanted to harm him. In an other opportunity a friend told me that it was her last reincarnation. I mean people can’t distinguish very well anything, and perhaps the people that you selected in you group aren’t like that, maybe they have things a lot more clear then me, but the only thing that I was trying to say is that we never know the impact that we can have in a person and we should take that with a great responsibility.
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Om Namah Shivaya
Shashi

 

Some inputs ....

Hi

Here are some interesting inputs from the various members from the group......

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The second day has been interesting - i find the breathing exercises interesting (I feel like I am getting focused and letting go at the same time, in a way...) but I have never done anything like it before and will be glad for a few days at the weekend to practice! I notice that I have trouble focusing when i am meditating....That also goes for finding my stone - I have not been able to go out and look for one today!
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What was your experience of the first day practice?

it was so different how each of my senses reacted when i was doing the excersises
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Dear Shashi,

I am so excited! My homework has been tailor made for me!
The concept of giving a piece of fruit (or whatever) to someone, especially
a stranger (LOL) is very appealing...I so like to share...and watching
people's reactions at receiving a gift is always pleasant.

Interestingly, I am actually catching up woith friends that I haven't seen
in a long while either..and am REALLY looking forward to it! They have a
beautiful property, 40 acres at the base of the Strezlecki mountain
ranges...very peaceful. I am going there to catch up with a Naturopathic
friend of theirs who works form there. (Time to address my BP from another
angle rather than just adding more tablets as the docs want to do!)
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Where were you when you felt happy and what you were doing?
I was sitting on the rug on my bedroom floor, next to my side is a rather big rock that i've had for some time that I like, I placed my hand on top of the rock and felt instantly happy and relaxed.
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Did you suddenly felt happy like without reason today.
-Being honest, no.
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Hi Shashi
Here are my Day 3 answers. This is indeed a rich and rewarding experience. I dont think I would have otherwise stopped to answer these questions about my life!
The calling bit (Day 2 task) was indeed challenging.. but then once I managed to get past the first hello I realized how easy it was to let go of the unnecessary ego :)
To give you a background, these are my first cousins who live abt 20 mins away from where I stay and I have been deliberately not calling them telling myself that its their duty to call n check with me if I am fine ( I stay alone at Delhi with my kids).
Nevertheless thanks for making it such a simple task - I realized it actually did not matter who called first!
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Om Namah Shivaya
Shashi

Well this is the fastest response I got for the program...

Well Gang ...

Pasted below is the fastest response I got from a friend...

It made my day... or rather I should say my late night. The fastest Response yet.. and quite intersting and relevent too , thanks a lot my friend
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Question
What was your experience of the second day practice?

Answer
Energetic, happiness, positivity, I felt as if I was being bombarded by a bunch of postirons!

Question
Did you suddenly felt happy like without reason today.

Answer
Several times!

Question
Did you do something that made someone happy

Answer
Yes. I smiled, the world smiled back. Little things go a long way.

Question
what you kind of thing you would have in five years in your physical possesion. Like What kind of car, house, job, business, family life etc

Answer
I'm visualizing here…PhD in epidemiology, a car that does not make a large carbon footprint on the environment, a job in disease prevention, everyone in the family getting along….happily married to ***.

Question
If you have to write a book what it will be - give me a small brief about the book and its content.

Answer
A collection of short stories……all the short stories I ever wrote and blank pages for readers to write what they learnt by reading my stories.
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Om Namah Shivaya
Shashi

One of us had an interesting experience.. Is it only a co-incidnece?

When I read your first mail, a line left me thinking for a while...

"...just like a jug of water which is submerged in the sea. The outer shell
of the jug becomes the barrier between sea and the water inside the jug."

I thought of it all day... and then I realized something. It helped me to
figure out how to...

I must say I'm happy with the life I have lead. I've had times of material
success and times of having nothing. Actually, I am currently unemployed,
but apparently things are getting better.

Yesterday, while I was thinking of the sea and the jug, I had this feeling
of suddenly recalling the women I've been with and feeling a deep love and
respect for each one of them.

Later, I left home with less than a dollar in my pocket. I went out for a
cup of coffee (it's very cold these days). On my way, I found a place where
they were selling great books at very cheap rates. I sighed... if I only
have the money to buy some, specially four of them. But I was not sad... I
was excited to have discovered the sea and the jug and all the time I was
feeling I could touch the sea trhough this jug...

When I arrived to the place, a friend came to me saying she was very sad
because she couldn't give me a present for my birthday. It was more than a
month ago and I tell her it was ok, a present wasn't necessary, but she
insisted and told me she wanted to give me a book, but she had'nt the time
to go and buy it. Then I told her about the place I had been moments before,
very near from there. With the money she could buy one in another place, she
could buy four... so I had something new to read while a was sipping my
coffee.

When I left the coffee place, I asked for my bill and the waitress said it
was ok, she wanted I have my coffee for free as she felt very good everytime
she got closer to me...

Wow... it really works... just one phrase...

Thanks for all, I'll keep sharing with you these experiences, this time I'd
like to keep it private, but when I'm able to log on to the blogspot group,
I'll share them with the other members.

Now I'll do my second homework.

Peace

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Om Namah Shivaya
Shashi

Some one raised a question about Kundalini being dangerous ....

 

/Coming to Kundalini... the power that are there are very powerful and but very hard to attain that state of raising those powers upwards and openning the gateways of the chakra... what we are trying to do here, realise the awareness of them within our self.... and I don't think that in only 11days we will be able to unleash its energy ... and no its not dangerous if you are able to awaken those energies as I believe that if you are strong enough to awaken them, then you are strong enough to handle them.. all these danger thing has come from the Tantric Practices who try to raise it for some kind of negetivite actions and try to control these energies for their personal physical gains.... and some of them wanted this to be obscure so they made it dangerous... to handle.. anything to do with supreme consciousness is a positive thing and will have positive effect only...

The image here is of one of the very powerful temples of Goddess Kali. The temple is known as Dakshineshwar temple and this is where Paramhansa Yogananda
(Wrote the famous book called "the autobiography of an yogi" ) achieved his enlightenment and
his guru Ramkrishna Paramhnasa used to live... Swami Vivekanada also was from here...



Om Namah Shivaya
Shashi





  

Karen on the Meat Controversy

The Karen's email to me...
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LOL...the only aspect I have managed to pick up since beginning is the meatcontroversy...

I would really love to know what all of the other aspects that I need to be implementing are! LOL

Having cut meat out of my diet previously altogether, I can only testify as to how profound the difference is..I even got to the point where I could smell dead flesh coming through my pores when meditating..but you are right Shashi, every person's journey is different...I can only speak for myself...and we will all do it at differing stages, rates and in accordance with what rings comfrotably for us..

Love and light to all

Karin

The day one - Setting out Expectations from the Program

Hi all

It’s nice to have 31 members in this program who are equally enthusiastic and willing to commit some amount of time to achieve spiritual happiness and success in personal and professional life.

Some Info

Foremost, I am no Guru, I am not a religious teacher, I am not here to preach and I am not here to play games. I may be some times wrong on the technicalities or in the religious finer points on discussions or my thoughts process but that is what I feel and what I believe in and they are exclusively my personal opinions. I am not an authority on the subject of spirituality, or religion or philosophy or for that matter any one of the streams of thoughts that I may come across or talk about in this 11 days program. I am here to learn along with all of you. I will be doing the same thing what you will be doing and I will be following exactly what I am telling you to do.

I am also documenting it (the whole interaction so that next time, it can be used much more effectively for others as well as for me). I am also promising that your information will be treated as confidential which you will be sharing with me personally. What you will be posting on the groups on your own or sending the emails to other group members, is something that is for public domain and I don’t have any control over it.

I am asking you to hold this process and the information shared here within your very close friends circle to discuss but not yet to share with others till the time we can collectively think its worth sharing at the end of 11days program. I believe in what I do and that is what I am sharing here. This belief on this process has come from my own experiences of success on personal, spiritual and professional levels.

To begin with let me tell you what I believe in -

I believe that we live in three levels of our existence. First is the environment we live in, second is the body that we have including its all sense perceptions and the third is the inner self. Its like three spheres one within the other. The environment, our outward contacts, interactions that happen in our day to day life is the outer most sphere. The middle one is our physical being where our sense lie probing the outer sphere which forms our experiences and memories. The inner circle is our inner consciousness that is some times called soul, sometimes called inner self and sometimes just plain me.

The outer world is ruled by the supreme consciousness, and the inner world is also part of the same supreme consciousness but separated by the physical body and our ego that envelops it. The senses ruled over by our logical mind governs our physical existence of the body and hence it forms a barrier between the inner self and the outer self (the environment, the whole universe or the whole supreme consciousness) just like a jug of water which is submerged in the sea. The outer shell of the jug becomes the barrier between sea and the water inside the jug. To reach out to the universal soul, what we need to do is to thin out through controlled action this barrier of our body (mainly the ego and the sense perceptions) and we can reach the supreme consciousness and can do things at the grand scale of sea rather than at the small level of water contained in a jug.

This is what we will try to achieve in this 11days program. Reach out to the Sea of success, love or blissful happiness through certain processes that I have experimented with and now trying to document it through this great group.

Everything happens in this world starts with inner consciousness, then it reaches to the sub consciousness, then it forms in the mind as a thought, then it becomes a vibration as we voice that thought and then it gets reinforced with action and finally it gets manifested in the outer world.

If we can control this process and start from the beginning that is from the inner consciousness to sub consciousness to mind and give life of vibration by voicing it within our self (or telling it or shouting it) and finally follow through with action, it’s bound to happen. There is nothing that can stop it from manifesting in the outer world. We just need to work on controlling this process of manifestation from the beginning to the end in the proper sequence and we can achieve almost anything. In this program we will try to achieve this flow and use it to almost everything that we do in our personal, professional or spiritual life.

Now for some action -

I would like you to answer me the following questions
1) What do you expect from this program?
2) What you would like to achieve at the end of 11 days
3) What is your goal of life, what you feel that you are here in this world for?
4) What you would like to do now, if you know that you are going to die tomorrow
5) What spirituality and happiness means to you

Home work

6) You will have to fill one excel sheet that I am sending after this through my gmail account
7) I would like all of you to stop eating meat (You can smoke and drink all you want.) only for the days we are running this program (Please tell me for whom its not possible) The reason to this is that its the most toxic thing that gets into the brain and does not leave the brain in calm frame of mind. I am not telling you to stop it for religious reasons.
8) Make a small corner of your room or any room exclusive for this program clean, free from clutter, should have light not a dark corner. That corner should be kept clean all the time, don't take your slippers shoes or other personal hygiene things. Put whatever picture you like, make a seat for yourself to sit whatever way you want. Place an incense stick stand and a candle stand or a flower pot whatever you like. I will prefer all if possible.


Something to Practice

A) Think deeply over the questions that I have asked and write me an answer once you have thought about it for at least 5 minutes for each so you will have spent 35 minutes in all.

B) Breath Deeply for 5 minutes

C) For 10 minutes, take a flower, or a flickering lamp, or a candle light or just any picture and look deeply in it. Look at it with total concentration, (your mind will jump from one thought to another, but whenever you realize this bring it back to the flower, light or picture.

C) For 10 Minutes listen to the music you love (Try not listening to hard Rock or music which are jarring to ears) Dance if you like but just keep your eyes close.


Please take the attached excel sheet and fill in the relevant columns and send it to me so that I can keep track of your each one’s individual progress and needs.




Om Namah Shivaya
Shashi